Hair-waving



M. MULLER HAIR WAV] APPLICATON man IAN. x4,1

Patented Sept. 48, 1920.

A TTOREZQ uarrsn STATES PATENT OFFICE KVIAX IJIULLER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

HAIR-HAVING.

Application certain new and useful improvements in the part of'wavingnatural hair on the head whereby hair is permanently waved in a sidewisedirection to cause the hair to lie flat on the head of the wearer inperfect Marcel wave fashion. Anotherobject is to prevent the hair frombecoming kinky or curly. Another bbjectistoprevent the hair irombecoming overheated and injured dur- 111 the process of waving the bail:

li'ith these and other objects in view the invention consists of certainnovel features of construction as hereinafter shown and described andspecifically pointed out in the claim.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in theaccompanying draw ings forming a part of this specilicatiom in whichsimilar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all iheviews.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the waving tool with a strand of hair woundupon the same;

Figure 2 is a sectional plan View of the electric heater with the wavingtool, the hair wound thereon and the protecting wrapper in position inthe heater, the section being on the line 22 of Fig. 3;

Fig. 3 an end elevation of the same;

Fig. 4 is a face View oi one oi the strands of hair after being woundand set and prior to being wetter! and con'ibed but; and

Fig. is a side elevation oi the waved hair as it appears on the ownershead;

The apparatus for producing the desired hair waving consists essentiallyof a waving- .tool on which a strand of hair 11 is wound, as hereinaftermore fully explained,

a wnpper 12 of asbestos or a similar material inc-losing the hair whilewound on the tool 10, and an electric heater 13 open at the ends forreceiving the wrapper 12 and the parts contained therein, as plainlyillustrated in Fig. 2. The waving tool 10 is preferably made of a metalrod bent into U shape to provide side members 15 and 16 extendingparallelly and connected with Specification of Letters Patent.

MAX MULLER, a citizen Patented Sept. 28, 1920.

filed January 14, 1919. Serial No. 271,094.

each other by a bend 17, preferably covered with a covering 18 ofasbestos or other suitable heat insulating material. The strand 11 iswound on the side members 15 and 16 of the waving tool 10 by passing thestrand adjacent the head of the subject, first, between the two sidebars 15 and 16, then around one of the bars (as shown, the bar 15) thenbetween the bars and around the other bar 16, after which the winding asabove described is repeated with the windings pushed close together, asplainly indirated in Fig. 1. The side bars 15 and 16 of the waving tool10 are sufliciently long to accommodate practically an entire strand ofhair. In practice each strand is comparatively thick so that it requiresabout six strands for waving the hair on the head of the subject.

The heater 12 comprises an inner metallic shell 2.0, an outer metallicshell 21 and heads 22 and 23 extending between the shells at the endsthereof and being securely soldered or otherwise fastened to the samethus providing an annular chamber 24: intermediate the shells. In thischamber 24 is arranged a shell of mica or a similar insulating materialaroiind which is wound a resistance coil 26 of wire having its endsprovided with an insulation'and forming a cord extending through thehead 23 to connect by a suitable plug'with a socket connected with asource of electrical nergyfor conducting a current of electricitythrough the resistance coil 26 to render the latter incandescent andthus heat the heater 13. In practice the resistance coil 26 is arrangedto produce heat of a desired degree and one that is suilicient toproperly set the hair without danger of burning, singeing or otherwiseinjuring the hair wound upon the waving tool 10 and held within theheater, as above explained. In practice it takes about twenty -minutesto properly set the hair and by using a low heat for a comparativelylong time the desired waving effect and nent setting of thc hair isproduced.

In order to properly hold the heater and the parts contained therein inposition on the head of the subject use is made of a handle 30 of woodor similar materialand attached to the top of the heater 13approximately at t e middle thereof. The upper endof the andle 30 isprovided with an eye 31 to which is secured a rope. cord or otherflexible connection 32 extending over permastrandextends in a:serpentine line in a sidecounterweight 35 for 5 heater and the 3 erimpedbut is '33 abut against the guide pulleys 33, 34 attached to a ceilingor ther overhead support. The end of the flexible connection ,32 isprovided with a counterbalancing the parts mounted therein to hold thesame suspended on the subjects head Without exerting a pull on the hair.It will be noticed that the casing 18 adjacent the roots of the hairs ofthe strand is free to side of the head of the subject Without danger ofburning the same aslthe said covering is not liable to be unduly heatedby the heated Waving tool 10.

After, the lapse of about twenty minutes tlieelectricity. isturned oliand the heater 13 is disengaged from the Wrapper 153 and then the latteris taken oii after which the' tool 10 is withdrawn from the strand ofhair 1- 1. The strand'of hair new assumes the position shown'in Fig. ithat is, time wise direction, namely, in a plane approxr mately parallelto that of the surface of the head of the subject. This strand is nowmoistened and combed out whereby a genuine Marcel Wave effect isproduced. It will be noticed. that by the arrangement described thehairis not lainlred, curled or given a serpentine or a Wavy appearancewith each hair extending in a member to arrange plane approximatelyparallelto the surface of thehead of the subject it will also be notedthat the hair is not overheated or jured during the process of wavingthe hair especially as the temperature of the heater is comparativelylow and the hair is protected by the Wrapper 12 of asbestos or similarmaterial.

Having, thus described my invention, 3 claim as new and desire to secureby Let-- ters Patent In an apparatus for Waving natural hair on thehead, a Waving tool of an approxi mately lJ-shape and upon the sidemembers of which a strand or hair of the head is adapted to be Wound bypassing the hair repeatedly around one side member, then between themembers and around the other the hair in a sidewise extending serpentineline, and a tubular covering of a heat insulating-material covering thebend of the said Waving tool and terminating at its ends at the sidemembers of'the tool to hold the hair off this end of the Waving tool,the said covering being adapted to abut against the side of the head ofthe user to protect the head against beingburned by the heated tool MAXIVIULLER.

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